[virt-tools-list] vm fails to boot, need to modify guest registry

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Aug 22 15:57:49 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:03:03AM -0400, Kenny Armstrong wrote:
> Nevermind, just realized the error in the question.  Windows needs
> to boot in order to read anything from the registry, however we
> can't even get that far.

Did W2K3 use BCD or BOOT.INI?  If it was old enough to use BOOT.INI
then you might try editing it:

# guestfish -i -d WinXPRecConsole
><fs> edit /boot.ini

and I think change all disk(0) -> disk(1) (or maybe rdisk(0) -> rdisk(1)?)

Rich.

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